This Journalist Is About To Be Very Unpopular With Some Mother Jones Readers
Marijuana policy is a charged subject: “I know I’m going to fail,” Berenson says.Craig Geller Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s been a few years since Alex Berenson has “committed journalism,” as he like to say. As a New York Times reporter, Berenson did two tours covering the Iraq War,…
New York State Officials Recommend Legalizing Marijuana
A man smokes marijuana at a protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in April 2015.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the United States faces a devastating opioid epidemic, New York State officials have offered up one potential alternative: marijuana. In a report released Friday by the New…
Manhattan District Attorney Will No Longer Prosecute Minor Marijuana Cases
A man smokes marijuana at the Cannabis Parade and Rally in Manhattan on May 6, 2018.Luiz Rampelotto/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The district attorney’s office in Manhattan, New York City’s largest borough, will no longer file charges against defendants in most marijuana possession and smoking cases, the office announced…
The Edibles Market Is Exploding. You Can Bet Big Corporations Are Watching.
Edibles on display at a California marijuana dispensary Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, pot is what’s hot. So far, nine states—California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Alaska, Vermont—and Washington D.C. have legalized recreational, adult-use weed. Meanwhile, venture capitalists are pumping the industry with cash; college students…
Don’t Call It Pot: My Dinner With San Francisco’s Cannabis Gourmets
Chron Vivant Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. San Francisco’s first ever Thursday Infused, a “gourmet series for the canna-curious,” begins at 6:30pm one evening in March. I’m greeted at the door of a handsome purple Victorian house by Jamie Evans, a willowy blonde in a yellow silk dress who organizes…
Jeff Sessions Says Marijuana Fuels the Opioid Epidemic. Study After Study Finds the Opposite.
US Attorney General Jeff SessionsGiorgio Viera/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a Heritage Foundation event celebrating Ronald Reagan’s birthday this week, Jeff Sessions made a familiar argument: Easy access to marijuana is helping fuel the opioid epidemic. The Drug Enforcement Agency says that the vast majority of heroin addiction starts with…